February gets underway with the fantastic two-day Dublin Racing Festival fixture at Leopardstown, in which there will be countless Cheltenham Festival clues on offer.
The fixture hosts any number of big races in its own right, however, and Majbrough is fancied to provide trainer Willie Mullins with an 11th win in the Goffs-sponsored Irish Arkle.

Mullins’ first three victories in the race came between 2002 and 2009, but he has since won it seven times in the past 10 years, with the likes of Un de Sceaux, Douvan, Footpad and El Fabiolo all going on to win the Cheltenham equivalent the follow...